While most people know that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump supports the Second Amendment and was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, fewer may be aware that his sons, Eric and Donald Jr., are gun enthusiasts and gun rights supporters themselves — far more so, in fact, than their father is.

Donald Jr. recently sat down for a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with Joshua Waldron, CEO of SilencerCo, a company that manufactures firearm suppressors, in which he spoke about gun rights, gun control and entrepreneurship in the firearms industry.

On the topic of keeping firearms in the home, the conversation turned toward his wife and family.

“I’m on the road a lot,” Trump said. “I have five children at home. I have a wife. You know, she’s a tough woman. She puts up with me and she puts up with my kids and does a great job raising them. But she can’t stop an aggressive bad guy who’s out to get her. She can’t do that by herself.”

“She has a concealed weapons permit. She practices with me and she enjoys it. It’s a big part of our lifestyle. And we need to be able to defend ourselves,” he continued. “My wife, as athletic as she may be, she realizes she’s not going to go – she can’t go one-on-one with a criminal looking to do her harm.”

“But the fact that she knows (her gun) is there, and the fact that she knows how to use that, lets her sleep a little bit easier at night when she’s at home and I’m not,” he added.

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Guns are known as the great equalizer, as they can put a small female on the same footing as a large male assailant, a notion that Trump Jr. considered important as it relates to gun rights and his family.

“You can defend yourself. You can turn those tables if you’re ever in one of those situations, God forbid, to be able to defend yourself and your family,” he said.

“And I can’t think of anything more important as a father. That’s what I’m around for,” he added. “That’s the number-one thing I have to do, is make sure that I can take care of them. And again, when I’m not around, that’s her number-one job.”

The conversation touched on a multitude of other topics as well, ranging from his father’s candidacy to gun control in New York and the ridiculous rules surrounding firearm suppressors.

When it comes to hunting and shooting and the Second Amendment, Trump Jr. stated: “It’s not just a hobby or something I do on the weekends. It’s a lifestyle. I mean, it’s the thing the Founding Fathers thought of right after freedom of speech and religion. It wasn’t an afterthought; it was created to protect our most basic and important rights.”

Speaking of the election and his father’s campaign, he addressed the importance of the Supreme Court and gun rights in general, noting the clear opposition to the Second Amendment from Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

“It’s also no secret that Hillary Clinton is not a supporter of Second Amendment rights, as made evident by her opinion regarding the results of the District of Columbia v. Heller case,” he explained. “The Supreme Court said you have a right to keep a firearm in your home. (Hillary) said the Supreme Court got that wrong. That scares me as an American.”

You can watch the entire interview here:

Donald Trump Jr. is what is commonly known as a “gun nut,” and he wears that badge with honor and pride, having been shooting and hunting since he was a small boy. He is passing that tradition on to his own children.

He and his wife understand the vital importance of the Second Amendment and how it keeps both his family and other families across the country safe and secure.